What do you consider a long track?
The upcoming site race track directory will be grouping tracks by length, at least into 3 buckets
- Short
- Standard
- Long
So I'm looking to see what y'all consider short and long.
To me, if you say you have a "short track" that means under 12-feet long. And if you say you have a "long track" that means 20-feet or longer. The standard track would hit the average curve, which I figure is between 12-20 feet.
In the old Fantasy League we also grouped tracks by style but I don't think I'm going to do that this time around. Or if we think that's valuable too, I can add it later. But I figure having stats per track size is a better metric.
So what say ye? What is your "long" and what is your "short"?
Discussion
Love the idea of a track directory, Aircooled and I were just discussing one. I know the site used to have specs, drop heights , and photos of home tracks. This was great for understanding how to build your car...long gradual slope? steep drop? long flat? Burnout start? these are big factors.
less than 15ft short track
scale 1/64 mile 20.7ft etc
medium track is 15ft - 30ft
Long track 30+...
Sweet, thanks for the input - keep it coming.
Here's the old track directory the site used to have when the League was still around.
The new directory would have a lot of the same data (hopefully I can copy most of it over) along with more photo options and details. The new directory will be very important since it'll be used for almost any new feature added to the site...everyone should want to register their track(s), not just to show off but so they can be considered for hosting, fantasy league, etc.
Using the 1/4 mile length as a reference for grouping is a good idea.
Now thinking
- Short < 15'
- Standard 15'-25'
- Long > 25'
- OK, cool — Nightstalker
- Sounds good. Just for another perspective, since I don't have a permanent track, I think in terms of 6 foot sections... — MoHasAFastCar
- ...cause that's whatt fits under a queen bed. So my standards are 24' of track — MoHasAFastCar
I would say Race and Fun has long tracks, as far as longest in time, any. track that takes 19...20 seconds to complete.
When watching the race gets boring it’s too long.
- Are you talking about Races and Fun tracks? — Zizzer_Prime
- Any track. I do plain tracks and a 15’-20’ track is just right for me. — alva1370
Road style courses tend to be longer than drag strips. I know mine is about 75ft, with runs between 11 and 15 seconds average.
Might need to reconsider the lenghts for those
>25ft - short
26-55ft - mid
55ft+ - Long
Sanrose Valley Raceway is the name of my track and it's only 19ft long. Finish line/timing system is at 18ft. That gives me a foot of runoff.
The 20' 7.5" quarter mile length should probably figure in there somewhere...that's what my track currently is.
Under 12' is definitely short, and I would say that over 30' is plenty long...just my 2 cents